Don't think you need privacy? Think again.
Privacy protects our freedom to be who we are. It stops people from using our personal information in ways we don't want. It stops bad actors from hurting us or the ones we love. Without privacy, we have no control over our lives.
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Need proof? Here's an ever-growing list of situations where a lack of privacy has real-life consequences.
- Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature
- Kash Patel admits under oath FBI is buying location data on Americans 💬 Discussion
- Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll
- Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database 💬 Discussion
- X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using X Verification Software "Au10tix" 💬 Discussion
- Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses 💬 Discussion
- LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 💬 Discussion
- Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web 💬 Discussion
- 5 Ways Hackers Use Facebook to Steal From You
- Privacy Tech Worker Explains How Ads Know Things They Seemingly Shouldn’t
- Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance
- Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google
- Facebook Reportedly Researching Ways to Use Encrypted WhatsApp Messages for Targeted Advertisements
- What in the absolute hell does Palantir know that we don’t?
- The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous
- Facial-recognition technology is one of the biggest threats to our privacy
- Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs 💬 Discussion
- Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State
- ICE Masks Up in More Ways Than One (Feds could be in your group chat) 💬 Discussion
- Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted 💬 Discussion
- TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app. Here's how to stop it
- How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are 💬 Discussion
- Signal president warns AI agents are making encryption irrelevant 💬 Discussion
- Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now 💬 Discussion
- Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 💬 Discussion
- Facebook and Instagram Are Spying on Your Internet Activity 💬 Discussion
- Meta Apps Caught Tracking Users in Incognito & VPN Modes 💬 Discussion
- Meta Is Recruiting Former Pentagon Officials As It Ramps Up Military Ambitions 💬 Discussion
- ICE is using Medicaid data to find out where immigrants live - States fear immigrants will shy away from seeking health care. 💬 Discussion
- TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection—here's what it means 💬 Discussion
- Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops 💬 Discussion
- Toyota Owner Didn’t Know His Car Was Talking To Insurers Until He Saw His Rates 💬 Discussion
- Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says 💬 Discussion
- The rise of ID/face scanning to access bars & clubs 💬 Discussion
- Report: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data 💬 Discussion
- Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers 💬 Discussion
- ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 💬 Discussion
- 'Signal' President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare 💬 Discussion
- Texas Hands Over Its Entire Voter Registration List to the Trump Administration 💬 Discussion
- Google is taking over your Gmail inbox with AI 💬 Discussion
- Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 💬 Discussion
- Law enforcement can now use Flock’s software to directly request doorbell videos from Ring users 💬 Discussion
- X now lets any user AI-edit other users’ images without consent, and there is no opt out 💬 Discussion
- Pennsylvania Supreme court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant 💬 Discussion
- Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 💬 Discussion
- TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims 💬 Discussion
- ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do 💬 Discussion
- Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 💬 Discussion
- TSA is forwarding names, photos, and flight info to ICE 💬 Discussion
- Americans' Privacy and Data: Congress Warned Over Warrantless Surveillance 💬 Discussion
- 8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions 💬 Discussion
- Is Your Smart TV Spying on You? How to Disable ACR and Protect Your Privacy
- ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women, even during labor: ‘She was so afraid they would take her baby 💬 Discussion
- Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan 💬 Discussion
- Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 💬 Discussion
- Journalist Reveals FBI Is Offering a “Bounty” for Reporting “Anti-Trump Thought” 💬 Discussion
- South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage 💬 Discussion
- AT&T, Verizon, And T-Mobile Customers Should Be Worried About The FCC's Ruling
- Bossware rises as employers keep closer tabs on remote staff 💬 Discussion
- Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI 💬 Discussion
- Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads 💬 Discussion
- Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn 💬 Discussion
- A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers
- Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings 💬 Discussion
- Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras 💬 Discussion
- CBP Quietly Launches Face Scanning App for Local Cops To Do Immigration Enforcement 💬 Discussion
- The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 💬 Discussion
- How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device 💬 Discussion
- You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says 💬 Discussion
- After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 💬 Discussion
- ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship 💬 Discussion
- Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 💬 Discussion
- ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media 💬 Discussion
- A New Bill Aims to Ban Both Adult Content Online and VPN Use. Could It Work? 💬 Discussion
- Hong Kong phone scams triple since real-name SIM card registration required 💬 Discussion
- As 'No Kings' protests decry Trump, surveillance worries emerge 💬 Discussion
- Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police 💬 Discussion
- DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 💬 Discussion
- Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online 💬 Discussion
- Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 💬 Discussion
- Senators Warn Trump Administration Is Developing Secret Watchlist of Americans 💬 Discussion
- Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison
- The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 💬 Discussion
- ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones
- Amazon Ring plans to use facial recognition scans. The new “familiar faces” feature is raising privacy concerns
- Project Dystopia: How a Little-Known Non-Profit Has New Orleans Considering Mass, Real-Time Facial Recognition Surveillance 💬 Discussion
- Police unlawfully storing images of innocent people for facial recognition 💬 Discussion
- Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up' 💬 Discussion
- Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans 💬 Discussion
- ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 💬 Discussion
- Massive attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment 💬 Discussion
- The right to anonymity is powerful, and America is destroying it 💬 Discussion
- Republican senator targets overseas facial recognition site (PimeEyes) over ICE doxing 💬 Discussion
- Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws
- OpenAI says it's scanning users' ChatGPT conversations and reporting content to the Police 💬 Discussion
- ‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences 💬 Discussion
- Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 💬 Discussion
- License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows 💬 Discussion
- Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 💬 Discussion
- Instagram's new location feature has left users feeling 'sick' 💬 Discussion
- Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ 💬 Discussion
- No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online 💬 Discussion
- Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 💬 Discussion
- Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 💬 Discussion
- Google could be reading your ChatGPT conversations. Concerned? You should be
- Study Reveals How Mobile Apps Track Users Through WiFi and Bluetooth: 86% of these apps collect at least one type of sensitive data, such as GPS location or unique device identifiers 💬 Discussion
- Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 💬 Discussion
- Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 💬 Discussion
- Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 💬 Discussion
- WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages
- 'The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen'. The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment
- Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
- Wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia moves to safe house after DHS posts address online
- UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
- Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China
- Social Security lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave, AP sources say
- Facebook’s Zuckerberg oversaw censorship tool for China: whistleblower
- Social Security classifies thousands of immigrants as dead, as part of Trump crackdown
- ChatGPT Will Soon Remember Everything You've Ever Told It
- The rise of surveillance during protests: a threat to fair trial rights
- New airport rules will get rid of boarding passes and check-in
- Meta to Restart AI Training on Europeans’ Public Facebook and Instagram Posts
- Microsoft rolls out AI screenshot tool dubbed 'privacy nightmare'
- How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To
- Trump Wants to Merge Government Data. Here Are 314 Things It Might Know About You.
- Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI
- Madison Square Garden Bans Fan After Surveillance System IDs Him as a Critic of Its CEO
- T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children
- Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest
- Now Even Gmail Will Push AI-Powered Search on You
- X blocks access to Turkish university students’ solidarity accounts amid protests
- Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids
- How much will the uncomfortable truth of a former employee cost Meta?
- 23andMe users may want to delete data as company faces financial trouble
- 'Chilling and Unprecedented': Trump Memo Threatens Law Firms That Cross His Administration
- Trump Admin Wants to Inspect Immigrants’ Social Media Profiles
- Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.
- Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands
- UK woman mistaken as shoplifter by Facewatch, now she's banned from all stores with facial recognition tech
- Students Target Teachers in Group TikTok Attack, Shaking Their School
- Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy
- Apple’s Photo Bug Exposes the Myth of ‘Deleted’
- Meta-provided Facebook chats led a woman to plead guilty to abortion-related charges
- WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages
- iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes
- Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media—and driving some to suicide.
- Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser
- Zoom’s updated Terms of Service permit training AI on user content without Opt-Out
- AI is quietly being used to pick your pocket
- Maker of Chrome extension with 300,000+ users tells of constant pressure to sell out
- People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are
- Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
- Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox
- How Evangelicals Use Digital Surveillance to Target the Unconverted
- Masked protesters could soon face arrest, says Home Office
- It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy
- Google's new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams
- $5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘Incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial
- Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit
- European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights
- Chromium Manifest V3 Explained for Toddlers
- Dropbox is sharing users' files with OpenAI, here's how to opt out
- Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data
- Google will no longer hold onto people's location data in Google Maps — meaning it can't turn that info over to the police
- Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users
- The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
- As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline
- Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service
- From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services
- Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode
- Revealed: Home Office secretly lobbied for facial recognition ‘spy’ company
- Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads
- 96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers
- Signal’s Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as ‘parochial, magical thinking’
- Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode
- US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all
- Scary AT&T breach leaks up to 70 million Social Security numbers to the dark web
- Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent
- Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says
- Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life’
- Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It
- Fake Cisco Webex Google Ads abuse tracking templates to push malware
- Stalker 'found Japanese singer through reflection in her eyes'
- Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant - a digital dragnet tool that allows law enforcement to identify everyone who searched the internet for a specific term or phrase.
- They criticized Israel. This Twitter account upended their lives.
- How Political Campaigns Use Your Data to Target You, and What You Can Do to Protect Your Privacy
- To Address Online Harms, We Must Consider Privacy First
- Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps
- Microsoft’s Copilot Studio AI leaks your business info internally and externally
- Snapchat Reserves the Right to Use AI-Generated Images of Your Face in Ads
- Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers
- India orders phone makers to pre-install state-owned web safety app: Report 💬 Discussion